- December 11, 2003
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December 11 ,2003 =*
Spamming :Virginia indicts two men (one arrested) on felony charges for violating state laws on bulke-mail solicitations. [http://www.wtop.com/?sid=150989&nid=25] [http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-12-11-spam_x.htm]
*Electronic voting comes under scrutiny at a conference in Maryland. [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/15/technology/15neco.html?ex=1072155600&en=9c98ed85b043f73f&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE] [http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,113879,00.asp]
* According to Pentagon investigations,Halliburton overcharged the US Army for fuel in Iraq.Dick Cheney was chairman of Halliburton prior to becomingVice President of the United States . [http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20031211_2133.html] [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/12/12/MNGTA3LVD21.DTL]
* InIsrael , an explosion at a money exchange office in a shopping district near the city center ofTel Aviv at 1230 local time (1030UTC ) kills three and injures at least eighteen people. Police say the cause of the explosion was probably criminal rather than terrorist. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3309825.stm]
* A general strike inQuebec interrupts road and port traffic as well as non-essential surgeries and day-care service inMontreal ,Quebec City , and Trois-Rivières. The strike was called in opposition to the Charest government's policies. [http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/12/11/quebec_031211]
*US Economy : TheDow Jones Industrial Average closes above 10,000 for the first time sinceMay 24 ,2002 . [http://www.washtimes.com/business/20031211-094903-1269r.htm] [http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/a/2003/12/11/national1610EST0666.DTL]
*TheInuit Circumpolar Conference says it hopes to petition the inter-American human rights system to rule that Inuit basic rights are being violated byglobal warming . They claim that thegreenhouse effect , exacerbated by the failure ofRussia and the USA to sign theKyoto Protocol , will lead to the destruction of their way of life. [http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/12/11/inuit031211] [http://north.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=dec11inuitright11122003]
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